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Le passé-composé

Le passé-composé. Use the passé-composé:. To tell what happened To tell what someone did. The passé-composé is:. The equivalent of THE SIMPLE PAST On a joué au foot = We played soccer But looks like the PRESENT PERFECT On a joué au foot

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Le passé-composé

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  1. Le passé-composé

  2. Use the passé-composé: • To tell what happened • To tell what someone did

  3. The passé-composé is: • The equivalent of THE SIMPLE PAST On a joué au foot = We played soccer • But looks like the PRESENT PERFECT On a joué au foot We have played soccer

  4. Like the English Present-Perfect, the passé-composé has2 PARTS HELPING VERB+MAINVERB

  5. What is the Helping Verb? • The Helping Verb is also called auxiliary or auxiliaire • It usually is the avoir verb • It agrees with the subject Here is an example: j’ ai joué tu as joué il/elle/on a joué nous avons joué vous avez joué ils/elles ont joué

  6. What about the Main Verb? • It is in a “special” form called past-participle or participe passé • Unlike the auxiliary, it doesn’t change! Here is how you form the past-participle! For regular –er verbs like “parler”: parler  parl_  parlé For regular –ir verbs like “finir”: finir  fin_  fini For regular –re verbs like “entendre”: entendre  entend_  entendu

  7. Like in English, past-participles can be IRREGULAR Here are the most common irregular French past-participles avoir  eu être  été faire  fait prendre  pris mettre  mis vouloir  voulu pouvoir  pu voir  vu boire  bu dire  dit

  8. So remember! • If you want to talk about whathappened or what someone did,USE THE PASSÉ-COMPOSÉ • To conjugate a verb in the PASSÉ-COMPOSÉ use AVOIR followed by its PAST PARTICIPLE Fin

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